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Eastern Oregon police chiefs see uptick of mentally ill on their streets

February 16, 2016
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Eastern Oregon police chiefs see uptick of mentally ill on their streets – East Oregonian, February 8, 2016 At one time the nation’s most severely mentally ill were locked up in mental hospitals, often against their will. Now they wander our streets. That’s how it seems to many law enforcement officers these days as they […]

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Mental illness on the streets of rural Oregon

February 11, 2016
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Mental illness on the streets – East Oregonian, February 5, 2016 At one time the nation’s most severely mentally ill were locked up in mental hospitals, often against their will. Now they wander our streets. That’s how it seems to many law enforcement officers these days as they spend more and more of their time […]

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Still Al: Remembering a Pendleton psychiatrist

June 9, 2015
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East Oregonian, June 8, 2015 He was still Al. The movie “Still Alice” follows the decline of a college professor with Alzheimer’s disease who, despite her deteriorating brain, finds ways to convey her inner spirit. That’s Albert Baxter, too, says his family. “He was joyful up until the last,” said his wife, Lorie Baxter, of […]

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Eastern Oregon loses public psych hospital, gets private psych clinic

December 16, 2013
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From AP.com, December 15, 2013 As the state of Oregon prepares to close a mental hospital in Pendleton, a new cluster of mental health facilities is emerging nearby. READ – Pendleton Lawmakers Try To Keep Blue Mountain Hospital Open Crews are remodeling a former training center for people with developmental disabilities. Once complete, it will […]

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Pendleton Lawmakers Try To Keep Blue Mountain Hospital Open

September 19, 2013
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From The Lund Report, September 19, 2013 Rep. Bob Jenson of Pendleton told The Lund Report he’s hoping to find a way to delay the closure of Eastern Oregon’s state mental hospital before its doctors and nurses leave for work elsewhere. Rep. Jennifer Williamson of Portland suggested converting it into a much-needed prison hospital for […]

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Two States Investigate Oregon Prison Counselor Who Admits Napping on Second Job

February 21, 2012
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By Les Zaitz, The Oregonian, Friday, February 17, 2012 Ming Zhu, a prison counselor, works full-time jobs at two prisons in two states. Zhu gets off duty at 6:30 a.m. from his graveyard job at Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla, drives an hour to Oregon and clocks in for a full shift at Eastern […]

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Pendleton police officer cleared in shooting of suicidal man

September 29, 2011
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From the East Oregonian & OPB.org, September 28, 2011 A grand jury Tuesday cleared Pendleton Police Officer Erik Palmer in the shooting of Mark McMillan. Umatilla County District Attorney Dan Primus, who presented the case, said a Pendleton grand jury jury found Palmer justified in the use of deadly force. Primus also said the case […]

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‘Juggling elephants’

November 14, 2010
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From the East Oregonian, November 14, 2010 Most of us get only quick glimpses of Pendleton’s hardcore homeless. We see them walking around town, overloaded with backpacks and rumpled from sleeping in shrubbery or on flop house floors. We wince as they fish bottles out of trash cans or mumble to themselves. The transient population […]

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ODHS plans to revoke facility’s certificate

November 22, 2008
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The East Oregonian – November 22, 2008. Not available online. The Oregon Department of Human Services-Addictions and Mental Health Division (AMH) on Tuesday notified the Pendleton Academies’ board of directors of their intention to revoke the treatment facility’s certificate of approval to operate as a provider of psychiatric residential treatment services and psychiatric day treatment […]

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Folk song inspiration dies at Pendleton mental hospital – in 1952

January 8, 1952
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published – January 27, 2016 An African-American woman who died January 8, 1952, at the age of 75 at the Eastern Oregon State Hospital in Pendleton claimed to be the inspiration for “Frankie and Johnny,” a popular folk song in the early 20th century whose notoriety continued long after her death. According to an Internet […]

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